BitMEX is a trading platform owned by HDR Global Trading Limited. HDR was founded in 2014 by three experts in the market –

Arthur Hayes, which serves as a CEO
Samuel Reed, which serves as a CTO
Ben Delo, which serves as a COO

The CEO of the company, Arthur Hayes, graduated from Wharton Business School in 2008 and moved to Hong Kong to work in both Deutsche Bank and Citi. But he left the big banking business in mid-2013 to devote his time and energy into what he thinks will be the future of finance – Bitcoin. The company is based in Hong Kong, China. They focus on the International market. BitMEX - Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange is a P2P crypto-products trading platform.

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The exchange has a top of the line security. They use miltisig deposit and withdrawal scheme which can be accessed only by BitMEX partners.

Amazon Web Services’ security is used to protect the servers with SMS and two-factor authentication, as well as hardware tokens. BitMEX also has a system for risk checks, which requires that the sum of all account holdings on the website must be zero. If it’s not, all trading is immediately halted.

They have email notifications, and PGP encryption is used for all communication. The exchange hasn’t been hacked in the past.